Originally posted 2010-04-23 00:50:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Talk about “scandalous and offensive” marks!: [P]hrases containing some form of “God” have been trademarked [sic] more than 3,400 times in the United States: “God answers knee-mail” and “All God’s Children Got Issues” and, of course, “T.G.I. Friday’s,” the restaurant chain. But where you have…
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This article constitutes an analysis of California’s Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976), covering its provisions, intent, and legal challenges. What SB 976 Covers Definition of “Addictive Feed”: SB 976 defines an “addictive feed” as any sequence of user-generated media (text, images, audio, or video) that is recommended or prioritized to a user based on…
Eleven notable domain registrars have abandoned ICANN’s pilot Registration Data Request Service, substantially reducing its usefulness. In June, 11 accredited registrars pulled their support for the voluntary service, which is designed to give law enforcement, IP owners, and security researchers an easier way to request unredacted Whois records. Team Internet is out, taking with it…
Ofcom has published its long-expected consultation on additional measures that it recommends U2U platforms and search engines should implement to fulfil their duties under the Online Safety Act. The focus, this time, is almost entirely on proactive technology: automated systems intended to detect particular kinds of illegal content and content harmful to children, with a…
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By MARK PEARSON Our Watch – the organisation working to prevent violence against women – invited me to be a panellist in a webinar focussed on the legal restrictions journalists face when reporting upon domestic and family violence (24/2/25). The webinar, hosted by Our Watch and the RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice, featured two parts,…
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Two professional voice actors based sued Lovo, a company that sells AI-generated voiceover software alleging, among other things, copyright infringement. Plaintiffs claimed that defendant took their voices without permission and used them to create digital clones. Those clones were sold to customers under the pseudonyms “Kyle Snow” and “Sally Coleman.” Defendant moved to dismiss the…
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By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Four years ago, NFTs were the hottest collectibles on the market and were being touted as the NBT (Next Big Thing). People were paying tens of thousands, or in some cases millions, of dollars (or the equivalent in highly volatile crypto-currencies) to have some bytes of digital code added to…
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Twenty-four Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers encompassing a range of practice areas have been selected to the Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation. The firm’s list of rising stars honored by Lawdragon is evenly split between women and men. This inaugural guide recognizes “the next generation of legal leaders in America” who have achieved significant…
In Cody v. Jill Acquisition LLC, No. 25-937 (S.D. Cal. June 30, 2025), the Southern District of California declined to enforce a retail site’s terms of use and compel arbitration, holding that the plaintiff, who used guest checkout to place an online order at the retail clothing site, did not have adequate notice of the…
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s recently retired envoy for combatting antisemitism, this week lamented that the effort to shine a light on increasing antisemitism in Canada had left her “despondent and despairing about the fact that it was hard to get people to speak up, to speak with clarity, to speak with conviction about what we were…
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